US men found innocent after 30 years in jail

Seriously this is insane!! 30years and the truth is just out? i never wish this for my enemy. please read this.

DNA evidence shows brothers, who are severely disabled and
were teenagers when arrested in 1983 , were wrongly
convicted.
Two mentally impaired half- brothers have been freed after
serving three decades in a US prison for the rape and murder
of a child after DNA evidence proved they were not guilty.
A judge in Robeson County said on Tuesday that Henry Lee
McCollum, 50 , North Carolina state 's longest - serving death-
row inmate , and Leon Brown , 46 , were innocent of the 1983
rape and killing of 11 - year - old Sabrina Buie after the
evidence came to light.
Both are severely intellectually disabled and were teenagers
at the time of their arrests in 1983, the AFP news agency
reported .
Following false confessions , McCollum was given a death
sentence and Brown was serving life for the rape.
" This case highlights in a most dramatic manner the
importance of finding the truth , " said Ann Kirby , Brown ' s
lawyer .
" Today , truth has prevailed , but it comes 30 years too late for
Sabrina Buie and her family, and for Leon , Henry , and their
families .
" Their sadness, grief, and loss will remain with them forever . "
North Carolina state law now requires murder interrogations
to be recorded or videotaped , but at the time the brothers
were convicted such laws were not in effect .
There were no recordings of the confessions , which contained
details that authorities now acknowledge were factually
impossible .

courtesy: aljazeera